1. Henry Bernard Glover was an American songwriter, arranger, record producer and trumpet player.
17 Facts About Henry Glover
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Henry Glover gained eminence in the late 1940s, primarily working for the independent King label.
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In 2018, Henry Glover was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the King Records 75th Anniversary.
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Henry Glover went on to produce sessions for the label's established roster of country musicians, including The Delmore Brothers, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, Moon Mullican, Grandpa Jones, and The York Brothers.
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Henry Glover co-wrote "Blues Stay Away from Me" with the Delmore Brothers.
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Henry Glover subsequently worked with Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Sonny Stitt and Ronnie Hawkins.
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Henry Glover encouraged the latter's backing band, the Hawks, to pursue their own ambitions.
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Henry Glover later organised the release of an early single of theirs, when they were billed as The Canadian Squires, prior to their becoming known as The Band.
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Henry Glover had further success in 1961 in co-writing Joey Dee and the Starliters' number one "Peppermint Twist"; and two years later, The Rivieras recorded Henry Glover's song "California Sun" resulting in a Top 5 hit.
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Henry Glover worked with Louisiana Red during the early 1960s, and created for a short period his own record label.
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On it Henry Glover recorded both Larry Dale and Titus Turner.
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Henry Glover later returned to King Records and briefly acted as label head until it was bought by Starday.
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In 1975, Levon Helm and Henry Glover co-founded a new label, RCO Productions, which released two of Helm's solo projects.
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Also in 1976 Henry Glover partly arranged with Garth Hudson, Howard Johnson, Tom Malone, John Simon and Allen Toussaint the horn section on The Band's concert, The Last Waltz, and thus the subsequent album, The Last Waltz.
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In 1986 Henry Glover was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
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Henry Glover died of a heart attack in April 1991, in St Albans, New York, at the age of 69.
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Henry Glover was survived by his wife, Doris, and a son, Ware and two daughters, Sherry and Leslie.